Buildout: Trying to build Pound

So, trying to build pound through a Buildout recipe was failing part of the way through.

Two problems and their solutions (not necessarily in that order):

• Needed to install libssl-dev because lcrypto was missing (ambiguity anyone?) - Synaptic says that the package provides “libssl and libcrypto development libraries, header files and manpages” (but never mind a search for `libcrypto`…)
• Had to correct the relevant user that the recipe was telling pound to build as.

The first point was pretty silly and the second one was just clearly my copy-and-paste mistake.

in Python · Wed 11 February 2009

Buildout and Version Problems

Two blog entries in one day - wow it’s been a good work day.

Just a quick chronicle of my thoughts: version conflicts in buildout aren’t always pretty. My latest escapade into trying to load up Varnish through zc.buildout resulted in a hair-tearing out message:

An internal error occured due to a bug in either zc.buildout or in a
recipe being used:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/tmp/tmp8o-_PD/zc.buildout-1.1.1-py2.4.egg/zc/buildout/buildout.py", line 1477, in main
File "/tmp/tmp8o-_PD/zc.buildout-1.1.1-py2.4.egg/zc/buildout/buildout.py …

in Python · Tue 06 January 2009

Plone: Buildout Won’t Install Products.OpenXml

UPDATE: Installation of Products.OpenXml appears to work happily with buildout when I’m using z3c.recipe.staticlxml to build lxml separately from having to easy_install or install system-wide packages.

So it’s almost Christmas time and I’m still slaving away working. It’s all about commitment.

Today in my life I’ve been trying to install the OpenXml product for Plone (using buildout, of course):

david@computer:~/buildout/instance$ ./bin/buildout
Uninstalling zopepy.
Uninstalling instance.
Updating plone.
Updating zope2.
Updating productdistros.
Installing instance.
Getting distribution for 'Products.OpenXml'.
Got Products.OpenXml 1.0.1.
Getting distribution for 'openxmllib' …

in Plone · Mon 22 December 2008